To Keep a Falling Egg from Breaking

March 21, 2012

On Tuesday, March 20, Cooper Union hosted its annual egg drop competition. Students from all three schools were invited to form teams and create devices that would help safetly deliver a chicken egg from the third-floor portico of the Foundation Building to the concrete ground below.

Egg drop devices were constructed by students on site starting at noon, and teams individually began dropping eggs a little after 1:00. Teams were judged on a vareity of factory, including the total weight of their devices and egg (less is more, in that case) and the team's accuracy in hitting a target with the device and its egg payload when dropped from the portico.

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.